Tag: Health

Having the ‘Talk’: Help Us Help U provides sex education to young adults in poor communities

Loreal Dolar (left) and Maureen Oginga (right) work for the Help Us Help U program.

Listen to the audio file here: http:// By Devin Rodriguez Pinellas County is ranked number one in Acute Hepatitis C in Florida. It’s ranked number seven for HIV infections, according to the Florida Department of Health. Sexually transmitted infections disproportionately affect low-income areas, like Midtown or the greater Southside of St. Petersburg, in part because… Continue reading Having the ‘Talk’: Help Us Help U provides sex education to young adults in poor communities

Midtown Health Advocate Stops Blogging: Where Is She Now?

BY SAMANTHA MESERVEY NNB Student Reporter ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In July of 2012 Ronnell Montgomery, a community leader in Midtown, started a weight loss blog titled “25 x 45”; her goal: lose 25 pounds by her 45th birthday. Her last blog entry is dated “October 23, 2012” which means her 45th birthday has come and… Continue reading Midtown Health Advocate Stops Blogging: Where Is She Now?